Improvement in detachable boot and shoe tips



M. R. HANLEY.

Detachable Boot and Shoe-Tips.

N0.139',060. PatentedMay20.1873.

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' IMPROVEMENT IN DETACHABLE BOOTIAND SHOE TIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,060, dated May 20,1873; application filed 1 January 6, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL R. HANLEY, of Providence, in the county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Detachable Boot and Shoe Tip, of which the following is aspecification:

The ordinary metallic shoe-tip is applied and fastened when the shoe ismade, and is not detachable, and can be applied by no one except themanufacturer. The leather caps lately substituted for these must besecured in the same manner, or else applied to cover the whole toe ofthe boot or shoe. My object is to so construct a metallic tip that itcan be applied not only to shoes or boots in process of manufacture, butto those already completed or in use and it consists in a tip havinglips or teeth turned inward from its lower edge, and hook-pins at eachend, as hereinafter more fully described.

Figure l is a view of the bottom of the tip. Fig. 2 represents it asattached to the shoe, showing the hooks at one end.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the tip, made of sheet metal, struck up or stamped out to theproper shape to fit the toe of the shoe above the sole, as represented.B represents a series of lips on the lower edge of the tip, which lipsor teeth are turned inward, so as to enter between the sole and upper ofthe shoe. At each of the ends of the tip is another hook-lip, O. D

represents a small wire hook-pin, which is.

driven into the sole of the shoe at each end of the tip, and whichprojects slightly to receive the hook-lips O, as plainly seen in Fig. 1,where the wire hook-pins are seen in section.

When these small wire hook-pins are driven into the sole the tip isreadily attached by hooking on one end, and pressing it tightly to thetoe of the shoe, and hooking it at the other end. It is detached bysimply pressing with the thumb on the front of the tip, and turning oneof the ends outward from the hook-pin with the thumb-nail. Theelasticity of the toe of the shoe and of the tip allows it to be thusapplied and detached very readily, while it is held securely to the shoewhen applied.

It will thus be seen that the tip may be applied to shoes already madeand in actual use, and be transferred from one shoe or boot to another,but thatit leaves the end of the sole uncovered as before, and presentsa neat appearance.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The metallic shoe-tip A, provided with the lips orteeth B, and the hook-lips O O on its lower edge, as shown anddescribed.

MICHAEL R. HANLEY.

Witnesses:

WM. W. RIGKARD, JAMES G. ARNOLD.

